• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    12 hours ago

    The harder they gerrymander, the thinner their margins get in the ‘winning’ districts. And then all it takes is a few percentage points of swing away from their expected results and they could be losing a lot of the districts they tried to gerrymander for themselves.

    And can you think of anything that’s happened in the past 2 years that might cause, say, a 5% swing in votes?

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      9 hours ago

      This is really the only thing that worries me here in VA. The recent legal gerrymandering is pretty risky when the referendum passed on such razor thin margins. I would love to get a blue rep, but the governor and state Congress are doing enough to get noticed, so that’s probably gonna mobilize the chuds, especially if conservative propaganda focuses on this enough. The fascist will never poll below 30% and probably 40+% of my district is in that 30%. If the choices are a rizzless blue vs a Christian, gun nut red, my area stays red and dumb and poor and only gets worse.

      I’m glad the yes votes won out, but the fight is only just beginning.